There are days where you just say “what the f… are they thinking!?” What most terrorists lack is the fire power to do damage in sufficiently large doses. It seems Canada is riddled with such fire power:

Just before Arctic ice closed the shipping lane last October, a Russian freighter carrying enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer for nearly 5,000 Oklahoma City-sized bombs docked at Churchill, Man.

It was hailed as a new frontier, the first-ever inbound shipment to arrive at the northern port across the Arctic bridge from Russia. But questions are being raised about the ship’s cargo, which is the same potentially explosive materiel allegedly sought by the 17 men accused of a terrorist plot in Toronto in 2006, and which was also used in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

After it left Churchill, 9,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate was delivered directly to farmers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and stored in their barns over the winter. Now, a group that represents the major farm retailers is crying foul, saying those farmers could be inadvertently putting national security at risk by storing the ammonium nitrate on their own property, and not at locked retail facilities. It’s something they want to see addressed in federal explosives regulations that could become law as early as this month.

“We have a large amount of a product that we know to be in high demand from both criminal and terrorist elements loosely secured throughout the Prairie provinces,” said Dave MacKay, executive director of the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers.

I doubt this just laying around and can be picked up on a whim. But it is also not controlled and who knows what someone would do for the right amount of money. Not the owners necessarily, but workers at these sites could ‘lose’ some quantities.

This material needs to be stored securely until used. And we need to make sure our neighbors to the North are being responsible with materials any mad jihadist would love to acquire as his ticket to gaining his 70 virgins.